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spanned helping to restore the solvensy of social security in 1983 up to the balanced budgets of the clinton administration. president obama has put the right american in charge. we welcome you before our committee today. i wanted to focus in two areas in this round. first of all, in the housing sector where our secondary market is in a bit of a jam at this point. we know that wall street's terrible mortgage securitization record created the largest transfer of capital from main street to wall street in our history. african-americans lost all their accumulated equity since world war ii. hispanic americans similarly, working class people across this country. i represent communities terribly impacted by the securitization meltdown. my question is, what is treasury doing to perhaps working with the justice department to recoup some of those assets for these hard-working americans in communities that have been so devastated? and have you considered, in addition to bringing back -- by the way, those banks are doing very well, the major ones that were a part of this. everybody seems to be fine up
spanned helping to restore the solvensy of social security in 1983 up to the balanced budgets of the clinton administration. president obama has put the right american in charge. we welcome you before our committee today. i wanted to focus in two areas in this round. first of all, in the housing sector where our secondary market is in a bit of a jam at this point. we know that wall street's terrible mortgage securitization record created the largest transfer of capital from main street to wall...
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you could say clinton was lucky, he caught the tech boom. clinton was lucky, he came out of the recession. i hope i have convinced you it wasn't just me. we had a whole team of gifted people working on this. but one thing you cannot explain away is the difference in the poverty reduction numbers. that is the single most important number to me in my eight years as president, personally. in all the so-called prosperity of the 1980's, only 77,000 of our fellow americans moved from poverty into the middle class. in the 1990's, 100 times as many, 7.7 million people, did. that was policy. [applause] interestingly enough, the conservatives always said they hated the government, but the size of the federal government expanded by nearly 200,000 under president reagan. we maximized the use of technology, thanks to al gore's reinventing government program, and we reduce the size of federal government by to 347,000 by the time i -- when i was in office. we were doing what we should have been doing for years, using the benefits of technology to increase
you could say clinton was lucky, he caught the tech boom. clinton was lucky, he came out of the recession. i hope i have convinced you it wasn't just me. we had a whole team of gifted people working on this. but one thing you cannot explain away is the difference in the poverty reduction numbers. that is the single most important number to me in my eight years as president, personally. in all the so-called prosperity of the 1980's, only 77,000 of our fellow americans moved from poverty into the...
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[applause] you, president clinton, for joining us. i have a few questions from students at georgetown and students watching us live from the clinton school of public service at the university of arkansas. let's get into that. the first question is from alicia. she asks, an important achievement of obama's term has been the brain project. a important advancement for research university like georgetown. what is your opinion of someone like this? some of the ethical issues? >> i support the brain project. it is starting out with a modest amount of money, but is an important thing to do. it is important to have public investment in grantmaking areas -- groundbreaking areas where there is no immediate prospect of return. when you break through the first barrier, other people will pick it up. that is what happened with the human genome. we spent $3 billion of your money on it. a study that said we had benefited $180 billion in terms of research. that is what will happen with this brain research. we are learning amazing things. it is particu
[applause] you, president clinton, for joining us. i have a few questions from students at georgetown and students watching us live from the clinton school of public service at the university of arkansas. let's get into that. the first question is from alicia. she asks, an important achievement of obama's term has been the brain project. a important advancement for research university like georgetown. what is your opinion of someone like this? some of the ethical issues? >> i support the...
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tonight, former president bill clinton speaks at georgetown university. vice president biden talks about and ukraine. then senator bob corker on ukraine. a house hearing on exporting natural gas to europe. >> on the next "washington ofrnal," the effotrts republicans to have federal lands transferred to state control. and a discussion of the economy and job creation. live at 7 a.m. eastern. share your thoughts on the program by calling in and your comments on facebook and footer. -- twitter. >> there's a lot more trauma and people's lives, a lot more disconnection, a lot more families are broken that should not be broken. i am not talking about the worst terrible means. families that cannot hold because of the stress of life, not holding a job, living in class,rld, that working up-and-down world can put a lot of strain on people, that connection they should have. and even the addictions that are so rampant now because it is so easy to get drugs and alcohol. it was happening for years ago but not like today. -- this is more of the american story than people
tonight, former president bill clinton speaks at georgetown university. vice president biden talks about and ukraine. then senator bob corker on ukraine. a house hearing on exporting natural gas to europe. >> on the next "washington ofrnal," the effotrts republicans to have federal lands transferred to state control. and a discussion of the economy and job creation. live at 7 a.m. eastern. share your thoughts on the program by calling in and your comments on facebook and footer....
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bush, supported the mission of the ex-im bank, as did bill clinton. all these presidents were staunch supporters of capitalism and the ex-im bank. listen to what president reagan said when he signed re-authorization, a bill that was re-authorized almost unanimously in 1986. quote, this sends an important signal to both our exporting community and foreign suppliers, that american exporters will continue to be able to compete vigorously for business throughout the world. perhaps an even more conservative voice, former vice president cheney said, in 1997, some of my fellow conservatives on the hill may have a philosophical problem about the fact that the bank -- with the -- problem with the fact that the bank is a government agency. but if they consider the success of its lending programs, it would be difficult for them to object on budgetary grounds. for every $1 put into the ex-im, there's been a $20 return to the u.s. economy. and further, again, same speech, vice president cheney, ex-im bank is remarkably effective at helping create jobs, opportuniti
bush, supported the mission of the ex-im bank, as did bill clinton. all these presidents were staunch supporters of capitalism and the ex-im bank. listen to what president reagan said when he signed re-authorization, a bill that was re-authorized almost unanimously in 1986. quote, this sends an important signal to both our exporting community and foreign suppliers, that american exporters will continue to be able to compete vigorously for business throughout the world. perhaps an even more...
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he served under secretary of state clinton as deputy assistant secretary of state, where she was central to organizing the u.s. government's response to the arab spring's. she is the author of -- and editor of "how israelis and palestinians negotiate, a cross troll analysis of the peace process." robert is the director of -- at the washington institute. an expert on arab and islamic apologists as well as u.s. middle east policy, he has written and spoken widely on the arab israeli peace process, and the need to revamp u.s. public diplomacy in the middle east. he is the author and editor of numerous books, including the battle of ideas on the war on terror. elliott abrams, senior federal for middle eastern studies -- senior fellow for middle eastern studies. he held several important positions, including deputy assistant to the president and deputy national security adviser where he supervised u.s. policy in the middle east. he was also an assistant secretary of state in the reagan administration and was the author of four books, including undue process, security and sacrifice, and the bu
he served under secretary of state clinton as deputy assistant secretary of state, where she was central to organizing the u.s. government's response to the arab spring's. she is the author of -- and editor of "how israelis and palestinians negotiate, a cross troll analysis of the peace process." robert is the director of -- at the washington institute. an expert on arab and islamic apologists as well as u.s. middle east policy, he has written and spoken widely on the arab israeli...
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of the savon center for mideast policy at the brookings institution served under secretary of state clinton as deputy assistant secretary of state for near east where she was central to organizing the u.s. government's response to the arab spring. freedom isauthor of on the march, and editor of how palestinians -- and palestinians negotiate very robert sattler is executive director of the washington holds theand also howard p burke or chair in u.s.-middle east policy. an expert on arab and islamic politics as well as u.s. middle has policy, dr. sattler written and spoken widely on the , and the needeace to revamp u.s. public diplomacy in the middle east. he is the author and editor of numerous books and monographs, including the battle of ideas in the war on terror, essays on u.s. public diplomacy in the middle east. fellow abrams, senior for middle eastern studies served in the george w. bush white house in several important deputyns, including national security advisor. he supervised u.s. policy in the middle east. he was also an assistant secretary of state in the reagan administration a
of the savon center for mideast policy at the brookings institution served under secretary of state clinton as deputy assistant secretary of state for near east where she was central to organizing the u.s. government's response to the arab spring. freedom isauthor of on the march, and editor of how palestinians -- and palestinians negotiate very robert sattler is executive director of the washington holds theand also howard p burke or chair in u.s.-middle east policy. an expert on arab and...
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when president clinton asked me to be secretary of agriculture, he and leon panetta met with me and clinton said your most important job is to work the congress. you know what it is like. you know what they are thinking about. hell maybe my eyes and ears. work it hard. when president clinton asked me to be secretary of agriculture, he was serious about that. so were his chiefs of staff. the president must engage in this process. >> >> welfare reform reflects bill clinton's commitment to do something really contrary to the liberal wing of his party. and one final thing. he also had the lowest period of time anddent in a long those relationships on capital hill as trent can talk about his huge difference in survival. >> being on the receiving end of communications from bill clinton i can confirm that we stayed in regular contact. he would call it all hours of the day or night and on more than one occasion after midnight. i was wondered what he was doing up at that time of night. but no. he was watching basketball. about ae was calling situation in central america. but the point was not that h
when president clinton asked me to be secretary of agriculture, he and leon panetta met with me and clinton said your most important job is to work the congress. you know what it is like. you know what they are thinking about. hell maybe my eyes and ears. work it hard. when president clinton asked me to be secretary of agriculture, he was serious about that. so were his chiefs of staff. the president must engage in this process. >> >> welfare reform reflects bill clinton's...
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and unfortunately under our previous secretary of state, hillary clinton, she gave, in my opinion unwisely, the reset button to the former soviet -- to the former russian government and apparently didn't think that they'd push the button. they did. they pushed the reset button. and they pushed it in a way that has the soviet union looking at the united states and making the calculation that the united states is now a weak power, that we have weakened rselves and therefore now is russia's opportune time to seek to influence and pull back into the fold former soviet block nations. as we've learned from history, .hen a mad man speaks, listen mad men spoke in the form of lenin and stalin and tens of millions of people were enslaved in misery for decades. the same happened under adolf hitler, with a mad man who spoke and he murdered six million jewish people. that's why we have today the holocaust remembrance day. we need to pay attention today to the thugs and rulers that are making their mad statements. they're doing it again. and that's why again, why did the obama administration demand that
and unfortunately under our previous secretary of state, hillary clinton, she gave, in my opinion unwisely, the reset button to the former soviet -- to the former russian government and apparently didn't think that they'd push the button. they did. they pushed the reset button. and they pushed it in a way that has the soviet union looking at the united states and making the calculation that the united states is now a weak power, that we have weakened rselves and therefore now is russia's...
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tamara cofman wittes served under secretary of state clinton, deputy assistant secretary of state for near east where she was central to organizing the u.s. government's response to the arab spring. she is the author of the freedoms unsteady march, america's role in building arab democracy, and editor of how israelis and palestinians negotiate a cross-cultural analysis of the peace process. robert sattler is the executive director of the washington institute and also holds -- robert stout off, the berkowitz chair in u.s. middle east policy. an expert on arab and islamic politics, as well as u.s. middle east policy. he has written and spoken widely on the arab-israeli peace process, the challenge of political islam and the need to revamp u.s. public diplomacy in the middle east. he is the author and editor of numerous books, including the battle of ideas in the war on terrorists, essays on u.s. public diplomacy in the middle east. elliott abrams, senior fellow for middle asian studies at the council on foreign relations, served in the george w. bush white house in several important pos
tamara cofman wittes served under secretary of state clinton, deputy assistant secretary of state for near east where she was central to organizing the u.s. government's response to the arab spring. she is the author of the freedoms unsteady march, america's role in building arab democracy, and editor of how israelis and palestinians negotiate a cross-cultural analysis of the peace process. robert sattler is the executive director of the washington institute and also holds -- robert stout off,...